Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived Monday on an unscheduled visit to Saudi Arabia to inspect Egyptian troops stationed in the northeast area near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border, officials said. Mubarak is also expected to confer with King Fahd.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with King Hussein of Jordan on Saturday for talks on Arab world developments during a surprise four-hour visit by Mubarak to Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba. After returning to Cairo, Mubarak told reporters that he and Hussein discussed the Palestinian problem and his visit to the United States, scheduled for March. This was Mubarak's second visit to Jordan since Sept.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger today and sought more military aid, a request given little chance of success in budget-strapped Washington. Sources also held out little hope of success for Mubarak's other goal--persuading the United States to break the stalemate in Middle East peace efforts by meeting with a delegation representing Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak paid a brief visit to Jordan today and met with King Hussein for what he described as continuing consultations aimed at reviving Middle East peace efforts and solving the Palestinian question. On his return to Cairo, Mubarak urged Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization to show greater flexibility to make a revival of peace efforts possible, declaring, "This is of great importance."

WHO: Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt BORN: 1928 EDUCATION: Egyptian Military Academy BACKGROUND: Elected president after the assassination of Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6, 1981, reelected in 1987. His performance in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War as air force commander led to his appointment as vice president in 1975. POSITION: Mubarak has emerged as the most dependable Arab friend of the United States since the crisis in the gulf began.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Friday with Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam and invited him for a state visit to Cairo. "We have had a good relationship with Ethiopia since ancient times," Mubarak said after a two-hour meeting with Mengistu, a Marxist. "We cannot let this relationship go in vain." No date was immediately set for Mengistu's visit.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived Wednesday for an unannounced visit with King Hussein, state-owned Amman radio said. The radio said that Mubarak, who was welcomed by Hussein and other Jordanian officials at the Amman airport, was accompanied by Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel-Halim abu Ghazala, Information Minister Safwat Sharif and Osama Baz, presidential counselor.